2 May 2008

Password Safe 3.13 has been released and may be downloaded from here (U3 version here). This is a minor release - some annoying bugs have been fixed, some minor features have been added or improved upon. Thanks to DK his work on this release, and to all the folks who reported bugs and tested pre-release versions.

Bugs fixed in 3.13

• [1941360] Rename with F2 now enables Save button.
• [1940311] Password Policy now ignores length requirements if not applicable.
• [1938057] Non-Latin text now correctly exported to plain text file.
• [1926678, 1937293,1939294] Reduce GDI object leaks that cause display problems during hibernation, screen locking and remote access.
• [1914433] It is now possible to view the password policy set for an individual entry, by shift-clicking on the checked Override Policy checkbox. A tooltip explaining this is shown when relevant.
• [1904391] Many functions, e.g.,  cancelling a rename of an entry, inter-instance Drag & Drop, no longer collapse the entire tree.
• [1904254] Non-text fields (e.g., time) are not shown in Advanced Search, as they are not searched.
• [1900655] Compare advanced subset now applies to current and comparison databases.
• [1899876] Fixed title/user problem when opening v1.7 databases.
• [1598836] Correct treeview now displayed after restore from timeout lock.
• [1478022] Correct description of this fix in the Release Notes to avoid user confusion thinking it does something different.
• Ensure first entry is selected when opening an existing database.
• XML export of password history fixed for when number to be saved > 99.
• Fix incorrect lock file handling during SaveAs.
  

Changes to existing features in 3.13

• Improved compare database reporting.
• Copying an empty field to the clipboard now emptied the clipboard (previously, no action was performed).
  

New features in 3.13

• [1914644] Password expiry can now be set as an (optionally repeating) interval. This is indicated in the List view by an asterisk after the expiry date.
• [1904254] Find now searches all text fields by default.
• [1901380] Find result highlighted and selected.
• [1901380] If the Esc key is not being used to minimize PasswordSafe, then it will close the Find Toolbar.
• [1901380] F3 (Repeat Find) works even if the Find Toolbar has been closed.
• [1887159] PasswordSafe may be configured to open databases 'Read-only' by default.  This can still be overriden during open if the file itself is not read-only.
• [1664535] Interpret "Remember 0 last databases" on the System Options as "do not store any opened database".
• [1399569, 912188] Separate the clear clipboard options on minimize and exit.
• [1207606] Notes may optionally be shown as tooltips.
• [988806] The Status Bar now provides Feedback on double click actions.
• Alt+F4, in addition to Ctrl+Q, now closes the application.
• Allow user to Hide/Show main toolbar.
• Ability to create/view a report of the previous Find request.
  

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22 February 2008

Password Safe 3.12 has been released and may be downloaded from here (U3 version here). This is a minor release - some annoying bugs have been fixed, some minor features have been added or improved upon. Thanks to DK his work on this release, and to all the folks who reported bugs and tested pre-release versions.

Bugs fixed in 3.12

• [1855658, 1436850] Implement font for password display correctly.
• [1850271] Save after Compare no longer corrupts database.
• [1849881, 700973] Pressing a character in the List view will now jump to the next entry with text beginning with that character in the second column. This is a change from previous behaviour, which only looked in the first column, now occupied by the icon.
• [1849830] Help now works properly for Manage->Option, displaying the relevant topic.
• [1849818] Browse-to no longer falsely reports "failed to browse to URL".
• [1843631] "Browse to Icon" now correctly shown using new Toolbar.
• [1841525] Increasing the number of passwords saved no longer deletes the existing Password History.
• [1833609, 1535341, 1502036] Fully support multiple monitors.
• [1749268] Mouse clicks on tree view plus/minus boxes now works correctly.
• [1670193] Better Vista support (Allow use of Windows Common Controls V6 with Vista).
• [1478022] User no longer needs to save a restored database before it can be exported.
• [1440693] Fix standard keyboard access to context menu (Shift+F10).
• Allow Expand/Collapse for read-only databases via toolbar.
• Set focus to new view on switching between Tree <-> List views.
• Update toolbar when view changes (List <-> Tree).
• Set title bar text when opening a database at startup.
• Allow List view to process all characters e.g. Page Up/Down, Home, End, Arrows etc.
• Fix program crash on clicking CompareResults dialog header.
• Toolbar Save button correctly enabled after drag & drop operations.

Changes to existing features in 3.12

• [1885710, 1852862] When re-showing the Find toolbar, any existing search argument is selected to allow easier deletion and modification.
• [1865009] Give user advanced option to ignore whitespace-only differences during compare.
• [1846688, 1224373] When generating a new password, it is no longer displayed in a separate window for approval. If you want to generate another password, just click on Generate again. If you want to revert to the existing password when editing an entry, just click on Cancel.
• [1841221] During drag & drop, a 1.5 scond delay was introduced before expanding a group that the cursor "hovers" upon.
• New disabled buttons for New Toolbar.

New features in 3.12

• [1842449, 1000639] Implement standard F3 for repeat Find shortcut.
• [1838738] Implement minimum lengths of types of characters in the password policy i.e. 3 uppercase + 2 lowercase + 1 digit etc. 
• Implement individual password policy for entries that will override the current database policy.  User can still override the individual policy or the database policy.
• An entry may have multiple references, or "shortcuts" to it, similar to Windows' shortcuts. These may be thought of as "synonyms" of the entry. To create a shortcut, drag an entry with the right mouse
• button pressed.
• Graphics added to menus.
• New password generation option: Pronounceable passwords. Thanks to Tom Van Vleck, Morrie Gasser, and Dan Edwards.
• [1676241, 1511829, 1436850, 1426250, 1078998, 996240, 771845] Allow user to select a font for Passwords, so that similar characters can be distinguished e.g. 0 & O, 1, I & l.

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